The main Ethernet cable wiring standard is the Cat-5, or Category 5, standard. The original Ethernet cable, familiar to anyone who has spent any amount of time fiddling around with computer networks, is a cable that ends in a dock that looks slightly fatter than an ordinary telephone jack, and easily inserts into network adapters on other machines. Ethernet cable wiring is a ubiquitous industry standard, and consists of 4 pairs of wires of different colors twisted around their twin cables and insulated from each other.
Ethernet cable wiring is twisted internally, and the twisted pairs insulated, because this kind of internal configuration prevents interference and signal leakage between the different strands. Each wire in a cable is one of 4 different colors: orange, brown, blue, and green, each twinned with a mate that is a stripy version of that cable. The various wires are insulated from each other in order, as mentioned above, to avoid signal leakage, which is why when cutting out and measuring your own cable wiring it is necessary to ensure that only the last half-inch of each cable is cut. This prevents the various strands mixing and causing interference.
Ethernet cable wiring is easy to do provided you know what you are doing. Since Cat-5 wiring was introduced in order to increase speed and performance over computer networks, the use of this cable is recommended for anyone who wants to access and use the Internet with all its content. A normal Cat-3 standard, such as a dial-up connection, will not carry any more than 10 MB of data per second. By contrast, Ethernet cable wiring can carry up to 10 times more data per second. As a result this standard is necessary for anyone wishing to use such services as Internet and video telephony, or to watch and access audio and video streams. The Cat-5 standard was the main standard, but even it has been gradually phased out by a newly developed standard that costs the same. This is the Cat-5e standard, which carries the same data as a Cat-5 cable but is useful to business networks due to small technical changes that make it a better carrier of data. Check out the video provided on Ethernet cable wiring and how to wire a cable.
Ethernet cable wiring is available in a number of colors, which are immaterial to what the cable itself can do. The internal wiring of the cable is what is important. As mentioned above each cable comes with 4 twinned pairs of wiring wrapped in insulation sheaths as standard, and should be cut only at the last half inch in order to preserve this insulation. This is because each of the 4 strands inside Ethernet cable wiring carries a different signal, and the mixing of these signals causes the data inside the cable to come out at your end slightly garbled. This may not seem like much, but remember that it could lead to annoying lags in connection, and in some cases to no connection at all. Therefore when deciding on Ethernet cable wiring, make sure that you exercise care in cutting and shaping it to your needs.
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